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EU Human Rights Strategy must include a Special Representative for Tibet
The EU should prove its dedication to the policy of peaceful dialogue and support for human rights and democracy with a strong and consistent EU strategy for human rights. This was the overriding message of a report voted in Plenary in Strasbourg today by ALDE MEP Leonidas Donskis (Liberal Movement, Lithuania). The Annual report on […]
Declaration by the High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on behalf of the European Union on Tibetan self-immolations
Declaration by the High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on behalf of the European Union on Tibetan self-immolations, 14 December 2012 The EU is profoundly saddened by the increasing number of Tibetans committing self-immolation, many of them young people. We are concerned by the restrictions on expressions of Tibetan identity, which appear to be giving rise to […]
Storm in the Grasslands: Self-immolations in Tibet and Chinese policy
Since February 2009, 94 Tibetans have self-immolated in Tibet, with a dramatic acceleration in frequency since the once-in-a-decade leadership transition at the Chinese Communist Party Congress in November. Twenty-eight Tibetans self-immolated in November alone, marking a new phase in the political struggle in Tibet. Many acts of self-immolation – that have recently been clustered in […]
EU Council Building in Brussels illuminated by the International Campaign for Tibet
New Nobel Prize Winner, the European Union, must address crisis in Tibet.
On the occasion of the Peace Nobel Prize Ceremony, the International Campaign for Tibet projected on 10 December an image onto the EU Council building in Brussels of the Dalai Lama and Xi Jinping meeting in order to convey a strong message of the urgent need for such a meeting.
Self-immolation: Ritual or political protest?
‘Tibet is burning. Self-immolation: Ritual or Political Protest’ is a set of 18 papers which are the result of a conference bearing the same name, held at the Collège the France in Paris in May 2012. The study was published in December 2012 by the Revue d’Études Tibétaines. Click here to download as […]
Norwegian website blocked in advance of Tibet meeting featuring ICT
The website of a Norwegian organisation dedicated to freedom of expression has been blocked in China in advance of a Tibet program on Thursday (November 29) featuring a speaker from ICT. This latest incident of censorship occurs two weeks ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, this year to be awarded to the […]
Tibet Brief – Edition 34
The Tibet Brief is an ICT publication for policy-makers, providing concise information and perspectives on the political, economic and human rights situation in Tibet. In this edition: Tibetan self-immolations continue and concentrate in Rebkong area Students injured in massive peaceful protests in Tibet UN Human Rights Chief, EP’s Human Rights Committee Chairlady and German Human […]
Three self-immolations in two days as total in Tibet reaches 81
Tamdrin Kyab, age 23 and a former Tibetan Buddhist monk, set fire to himself and died on November 23 in Luchu township, Gansu province. Tamdrin Dorjee, age 29, set fire to himself in the evening of November 23 in front of a government building in Dokarmo in the Tsekhog area of Rebkong, Qinghai province. He […]
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration
His Holiness the Dalai Lama His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet. Since the Chinese invasion of 1959, the Dalai Lama has continuously initiated a process of peaceful dialogue and negotiation with Chinese officials. In 1979, he announced a “Middle Way Approach” to resolve the Tibetan issue in […]
China’s new leadership and Tibet
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced its new ‘Fifth Generation’ leadership on November 15, with Xi Jinping appointed as Party Secretary and head of the CCP Central Military Commission in a once-in-a-decade leadership transition. Members of the new seven-member Standing Committee of the Politburo headed by Xi are older, conservative, and associated with harsh […]